‘Dangerous and Foolish’: How Legal Vote Harvesting Prompts Illegal Conduct by Political Operatives

From The Daily Signal.com (Oct. 24):

In Texas, they are called “politiqueras” and in Florida, they are called “boleteros.” Broadly speaking, these are professional campaign operatives and political activists who have access to absentee ballots and authority to recruit voters.

Such ballot harvesting, allowed in 27 states and the District of Columbia, gained much attention this year when corrupt handling of absentee ballots led to an invalidated U.S. House election in North Carolina. But such controversies are hardly new, as explained in a recent Heritage Foundation report.

Mayor Anthony Grant was elected in Eatonville, Florida, in a close 2015 race thanks to absentee ballots. Grant was convicted on charges of voter fraud in 2017 that included coercing absentee voters to vote for him.

Mayor Ruth Robinson of Martin, Kentucky, was convicted along with family members in 2014 on civil rights and vote fraud-related charges. Prosecutors said Robinson’s conduct included threatening and intimidating poor and disabled residents into casting absentee votes for her in the 2012 mayoral race.

The Heritage report, written by Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, says ballot harvesting should be banned in states that now allow it.  [read on]

Vote harvesting is not a good idea.

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• Vote Harvesting a Recipe for Coercion, Election Fraud
• The Voter-Purge Myth
• CONSERVATIVE WATCHDOG GROUP UNCOVERS MILLIONS OF “EXTRA” VOTERS – WARNS 5 STATES TO CLEAN UP VOTER ROLLS OR FACE A LAWSUIT
• Hundreds of Non-Citizens Registered to Vote in Illinois Due to “Programming Error”